Slow Start.. Hoping to See Results Soon - Boston, MA

On tray 19 now, and I meet with my ortho to get trays 20-23... my final four. It's so hard to not get excited about the end date, because I know it's likely NOT the end and that most people need refinements. So that's what I've been stressing about lately. That, and just that despite the improvements on my lowers, two lower teeth still aren't hitting the top of the tray, and that worries me. Can't wait to be done with this process mostly so I don't need to stress about the results anymore!

I just switched to tray 18/23 yesterday, and so far so good. My trays aren't fitting as perfectly as they probably should be - one of my canines isn't rotating as much as it should and there are a couple of small gaps on my bottom front teeth between the enamel and the tray. Overall though, my progress is going pretty well and I hope I'm on track to be finished with everything soon. I have a follow-up with my ortho at tray 20 and at that point we'll decide if it's better to just do a mid-course correction (which counts as 1 of my 2 refinements) rather than wait until tray 23 is complete to begin that process as not to waste time. I'm pretty happy with my results so far, though! Even though my case wasn't one of the worst out there, I still think I have made a ton of progress since I started last September!

So I am now on tray #16 and definitely starting to see results. My bottom teeth are still not where I'd like them to be but I'm hoping they will improve a lot by the time I am finished (23 trays total). The only really annoying thing now is that both of my previous two trays (14 and 15) have cracked in nearly the same spot, forcing me to switch to the next tray a few days (or an entire week) early. I don't know how bad this will be in the long run, and if it will mean refinements are necessary. They appear to be cracking around one rather large attachment on one of my back upper teeth. I'm trying to be more careful and dislodge them from the back, but it's difficult when I'm in public and trying to be discrete.

The other slightly annoying thing is my aligners started to protrude from one of my upper canines to the point where my attachment had to be shaved down to get them to fit again. Then the issue was that tooth stopped rotating to the extent it shoul. My ortho used a metal clamp of some sort to 'tweak' the trays and exert more pressure on that tooth, but I'm still concerned that will cause me to need refinements in the end (can you tell I'm sick of dealing with the trays?). I really shouldn't complain too much though; I'm actually starting to see some results at this point and it's awesome!